I experienced Black Mesa as my introduction to the Half Life series, having played Portal 2 on release as a very young kid. I really enjoyed this game! There were certainly some sequences that I thought aged poorly (the instant-death jumping challenges in the explosives depot stood out as a huge headache), but generally, the level design more than made up for it with its memorability. I think my favorite level was the Xen sequence “Interloper”, which if I understand correctly was revised and expanded on for this community remaster. There are some sequences, such as the whole section of alien grunt factory puzzles, that could be cut out, but the first encounters with non-hostile Vortigaunts was my favorite moment in the whole game.
I do wish that the game ran better steam deck, but besides that, no notes.